Alberti, Leone Battista, De re aedificatoria, 1485
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              <s id="N400020">LEONIS BAPTISTE ALBERTI DE RE AEDIFICA
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              TORIA INCIPIT LEGE FELICITER</s>
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              <s id="N400037">VLTAS ET VARIAS ARTES QVE
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              ad uitam bene beateque
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              faciant ſumma
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              induſtria et diligentia conquiſitas nobis ma
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              iores noſtri tradidere. </s>
              <s id="N400044">Quæ omnes et ſi ferant
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              præ ſe: quaſi certatim huc tendere: Vt pluri
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              mum generi hominum proſint: tamen habere
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              innatum atque inſitum eas intelligimus quip
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              piam: quo ſingulæ ſingulos præceteris diuerſoſque polliceri fruc
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              tus uideantur: Nanque artes quidem alias neceſſitate ſectamur:
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              alias probamus utilitate: Aliæ uero quod tantum circa res cognitu
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              gratiſſimas uerſentur in pretio ſunt: quales autem hæ ſint artes
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              non eſt ut proſequar: in promptu enim ſunt: uerum ſi repetas ex
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              omni maximarum artium numero nullam penitus inuenies: quæ
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              non ſpretis reliquis ſuos quoſdam & proprios fines petat et con
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              templetur. </s>
              <s id="N40005D">Aut ſi tandem comperias ullam: quæ cum huiuſmodi
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              ſit: ut ea carere nullo pacto poſſis: tum et de ſe utilitatem: uolup
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              tati dignitatique coniunctam præſtet: meo iudicio ab earum numero
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              excludendam eſſe: non duces architecturam: namque ea quidem
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              ſiquidem rem diligentius penſitaris et publice & priuatim com
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              modiſſima et uehementer gratiſſima generi hominum eſt: digni
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              tateque inter primas non poſtrema: Sed
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              ultra progrediar:
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              explicandum mihi cenſeo quemnam haberi uelim architectum:
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              Non enim tignarium adducam
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              : quem tu ſummis cæterarum
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              diſciplinarum uiris compares: Fabri enim manus architecto pro
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              inſtrumento
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              <s id="N400080">Architectum ego hunc fore conſtituam / qui certa
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              admirabilique ratione et uia tum mente animoque diffinire: tum et
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              opere abſoluere didicerit quocumque ex ponderum motu corporumque
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              compactione et coagmentatione digniſſimis
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              uſibus bel
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              liſſime
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              : Quæ ut poſſit
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              et cognitione
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              opus eſt rerum optimarum et digniſſimarum: Itaque huiuſmodi erit
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              architectus: redeo ad rem Fuere qui dicerent aquam aut ignem </s>
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